The British were looking for a way to improve their access to the East Indies so they could include the East Indies as part of their colonial empire.

increase the probability of finding gold and silver.

increase their ability to trade for valuable goods.

include a stop at the tip of South America on their way.

Why did reconstruction polices split the women’s suffer age movement?

What could have been done to stop the illegal voting? what about the violence?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is